Associations to the word «Difference»

DIFFERENCE, noun. (uncountable) The quality of being different.

DIFFERENCE, noun. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

DIFFERENCE, noun. (countable) A disagreement or argument.

DIFFERENCE, noun. (countable) (uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

DIFFERENCE, noun. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

DIFFERENCE, noun. (obsolete) Choice; preference.

DIFFERENCE, noun. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

DIFFERENCE, noun. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

DIFFERENCE, noun. (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\(\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B\)).

DIFFERENCE, noun. (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\(\scriptstyle A \overline B\)).

DIFFERENCE, verb. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

DIFFERENCE ENGINE, noun. (computing) A mechanical special-purpose computer used to generate tables of values of polynomials.

DIFFERENCE EQUATION, noun. (mathematics) An equation involving an ordered sequence or real numbers (\(\left\{a_n\right\}_{n=1}^\infty\)) and some number if it's differences, where the first difference is defined as \(\Delta(a_n) = a_{n+1} - a_n\,\) and the kth difference is defined recursively as \(\Delta^k(a_n) = \Delta^{k-1}(a_{n+1}) - \Delta^{k-1}(a_n)\,\).

DIFFERENCE EQUATION, noun. (mathematics) more broadly, any recurrence relation

DIFFERENCE GATE, noun. (electronics) a logic gate whose output is TRUE when the two inputs are different; a Boolean logic XOR gate.

DIFFERENCE OF OPINION, noun. A disagreement.

DIFFERENCE OF TWO SQUARES, noun. (algebra) The identity \(x^2 - y^2 = (x+y)(x-y)\,\) that holds for all real numbers.

DIFFERENCE, noun. The quality of being unlike or dissimilar; "there are many differences between jazz and rock".

DIFFERENCE, noun. A variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean".

DIFFERENCE, noun. A disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats".

DIFFERENCE, noun. A significant change; "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference".

DIFFERENCE, noun. The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend.